Candidate in the pocket of Big Pizza?Ohio Governor John Kasich – who wants to remind you he's still running for president – committed a cardinal sin that any New York City resident could have have helped him avoid on his recent trip t...

An endorsement & an announcementWe were lucky enough to receive this in our inbox recently, the mother of all who's who political pictures! Sure, we've been digging through our archives and sharing photos of a handful of elected ...

Longtime Queens potlical insider working for TrumpA longtime Queens Republican political operative has made the jump to the national stage. It was announced that John Haggerty, who for years was locked in a struggle for control of the Queens Repub...

Remembering the Queens FestivalFor the past two week we ran a photo from our archives that was a photo of three men promoting something called the Queens Festival, and while plenty of people could identify the men, we didn't get...

The mystery of the Queens FestivalWe ran this photo from our archives of former Queens borough president Donald Manes with a couple of gentleman promoting something called the Queens Festival '86 asking for help clueing us in on so...

The mysterious Queens Festival of '86It's been a couple of weeks since we went digging through our archives, so we decided we would go rooting around again and came up with this mystery photo. That is obviously former Queens borough p...

It must have been lost in the mail!It appears Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't want his frenemies crashing his town hall meeting in Bayside this week. Roundly criticized for not being more accessible to the public, the mayor has been hol...

Former assemblywoman back in the spotlightHas anybody out there wondered what ever became of former Bayside assemblywoman Ann Margaret Carrozza? You have, you say! Well, it appears the former Albany politician will be releasing her fire bo...

Another from the archivesWe might need some Brooklyn folks out there to help identify the people in the this mystery photo from our archives. We can’t be entirely sure, but we think we represent a couple of Brooklyn electe...

GOP has their man for City Hall?Is the Queens County Republican Party confident they have the new face of their organization? According to some sources, they are convinced that they do. Sources say Councilman Eric Ulrich is being...

Get to know former AG Robert AbramsWe ran this mystery photo from our archives last week, and our trusty historian, Jeff Gottlieb of the Central Queens Historical Association, was once again able to fill in some of the details. In a...

An angry missive from the desk of...?I guess it is true that no good deed goes unpunished. Last week, Assemblyman Ron Kim sent a message to his constituents announcing that he thinks he now realizes why his hometown of Flushing isn't ...

Two 'big' men in city politicsWe ran this undated photo from our archives in the January 7th issue asking if any of our readers could identify the people in the picture, and reliable responder Jeff Gottlieb, president of the Ce...

Digging up some clues on our mystery photoWow, we had an amazing response to this photo we dug up from our archives and ran in last week's paper. Several people emailed their thoughts on who they thought might be in the photo, including Jo...

A Mystery GroundbreakingWe went back to the archives this week and dug up this picture of a bunch of people digging dirt. Obviously it's a ceremonial groundbreaking for some sort of Queens College project, but beyond that...

By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. derivatives regulator will move on from reforms undertaken after the 2007-09 financial crisis to a new focus on U.S. competitiveness and the potential for shocks to the global $710 trillion swaps markets under President-elect Donald Trump. J. Christopher Giancarlo, in line to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission once Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20, has said the agency should look beyond mandates from the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law to current trends in financial markets. As the sole Republican on the CFTC, Giancarlo will at least temporarily run the commission where he is currently the minority member.

By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Russian competitors across more than 30 sports were involved in an institutional conspiracy to conceal positive doping tests as Moscow 'hijacked international sport', an independent WADA report said on Friday. The second and final part of the report for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) by Canadian sports lawyer Richard McLaren provided exhaustive evidence of an elaborate state-sponsored doping scheme operated by Russia's Sports Ministry. "We are now able to confirm a cover-up that dates back until at least 2011 that evolved from uncontrolled chaos to an institutionalized and disciplined medal-winning conspiracy," McLaren told a news conference on Friday.